notes to pages 72–75 205
1283 – 1301 ; C. Laliena Corbera, “La adhesión de las ciudades a la Unión: poder
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8 ( 1989 ): 319 – 413 ; and Donald Kagay, “Rebellion on Trial: The Aragonese Unión
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( 1997 ): 30 – 43.
150. Fueros y observancias del Reyno de Aragón, fols. 7 c – 9 c, as cited in Shneid-
man, “Political Theory,” 184.
151. ACA, R. 47 , fol. 52 r: “Item demandan los rico homes et todos los otro so-
bredichos que en los regnos d’Aragon e de Valencia, ni en Ribagorça ni en Teruel,
que no aya bayle que jodia sea.”
152. ACA, R. 46 , fol. 129 r: “Item statuimus et ordinamus quod nullus judeus
sit baiulus nec teneat baiuliam nec curiam nec sit etiam collector redditum in Va-
lencia nec in alio loco regni, nec officium publicum teneat unde super christianum
habeat jurisdictionem.” See also CYADC, II: 49 (Recognoverunt proceres): “Item
concedimus capitulum quod aliquis judeus non possit uti jurisdictione vel districtu
super christianos.”
153. Jaume II also adopted the strategy of naming new noblemen. See F. de
Moxó Monotliu, “Jaume II y la nueva concesión de títulos nobiliarios en la España
del siglo XIV,” Anales de la Universidad de Alicante: Historia medieval 9 ( 1992 –
1993 ): 133 – 43.
154. Romano, “Los funcionarios judíos,” 32.
155. ACA, R. 80 , fol. 8 r ( 12 July 1289 ): “... Abrafim el genet, iudeum nostrum.”
156. ACA, R. 74 , fol. 5 r ( 14 Oct. 1287 ); and ACA, R. 74 , fol. 11 r ( 23 Oct. 1287 ).
See also Gazulla, “Zenetes,” 187 ; Catlos, “Mahomet Abenadalill,” 295 – 96 ; and Bis-
son, The Medieval Crown of Aragon, 90.
157. ACA, R. 98 , fol. 110 v ( 15 May 1293 ): “Cum pro certo didiscerimus quod
aliqui nobiles Aragonum noviter ad regem Granate suos nuncios transmiserint
pro petendo et habendo auxilio ab eodem. Intellexerimus etiam alios nuncios ad
dictum regum Granate misos fuisse per illustrem Alfonse, filium illustris dompni
Ferrandi de Castellam, quod intellexerimus etiam quod nobilis Artaldus de Ala-
gone nunc misit ad dictum regum maiordomum suum simul cum quodam Sar-
raceno janeto pro habenda ab eo aliqua janetorum comitiva pro inferendo nobis
dampnum, et nos eorum tractatibus et conatibus intendamus et velimus resistere,
sic quod non terre seu subditis nostris dampnum seu nocumentum aliquod inferre
non possint.” See also ACA, R. 98 , fols. 110 v – 111 r ( 15 May 1293 ).
158. Henry David Thoreau, “Walden,” The Portable Thoreau, ed. Carl Bode,
278 , with credit to Keane, “The Hazards of New Clothes,” 1.
Chapter Four
- Parts of this chapter appeared in Hussein Fancy, “The Last Almohads: Uni-
versal Sovereignty Between North Africa and the Crown of Aragon,” Medieval